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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAs states seem to be on the brink of being able to control the reproductive role of women
I wonder if the ultimate goal is not to increase the populations of those states, without having to rely on an influx of 'undesirable' immigrants.
Perhaps those states may even begin to offer incentives to women to have more babies, set a kind of competition in motion by awarding medals based on how many babies they produce!
I can't take the credit for this brilliant idea about the medals - its already been done.
On August 12, 1938, Adolf Hitler institutes the Mothers Cross, to encourage German women to have more children, to be awarded each year on August 12, Hitlers mothers birthday.
The German Reich needed a robust and growing population and encouraged couples to have large families. It started such encouragement early. Once members of the distaff wing of the Hitler Youth movement, the League of German Girls, turned 18, they became eligible for a branch called Faith and Beauty, which trained these girls in the art of becoming ideal mothers. One component of that ideal was fecundity. And so each year, in honor of his beloved mother, Klara, and in memory of her birthday, a gold medal was awarded to women with seven children, a silver to women with six, and a bronze to women with five.
The German Reich needed a robust and growing population and encouraged couples to have large families. It started such encouragement early. Once members of the distaff wing of the Hitler Youth movement, the League of German Girls, turned 18, they became eligible for a branch called Faith and Beauty, which trained these girls in the art of becoming ideal mothers. One component of that ideal was fecundity. And so each year, in honor of his beloved mother, Klara, and in memory of her birthday, a gold medal was awarded to women with seven children, a silver to women with six, and a bronze to women with five.
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As states seem to be on the brink of being able to control the reproductive role of women (Original Post)
70sEraVet
May 2022
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SoonerPride
(12,286 posts)2. They want to punish women for having sex.
Phoenix61
(17,006 posts)3. Yes they do! If it was anything else they would make
birth control accessible and free.
Srkdqltr
(6,291 posts)4. Good grief, I'm glad I'm old.
Yes I know, I do care for others.